Description
Book SynopsisTens of thousands of patients die unnecessarily every year as a result of errors and defects in our healthcare processes. Those that survive often pay too much for the privilege. The value stream mapping methods described in Mapping Clinical Value Streams will help you achieve more efficient health care processes and will pave the way to an improved medical system with significantly reduced medical errors and other costly waste.
Part of the Lean Tools in Healthcare series, this user-friendly book will help you understand how to use value stream mapping to provide quality, patient-centered care. Value stream mapping is a powerful tool for observing and depicting processes as they truly areand for envisioning and reconfiguring the same processes to eliminate errors and other waste. With this book, you'll learn how to:
- Map current-state processes
- Create a future-state map with processes streamlined through flow and pull
- Manage the rollout
Table of Contents
Preface, Acknowledgments, Chapter 1 - Getting Started, Chapter 2 - The Production Processes, Chapter 3 - Value Streams and the Mapping Process, Chapter 4 - Map the Current State, Chapter 5 - Map the Future State: Phase I – Flow, Chapter 6 - Map the Future State: Phase II – Pull, Chapter 7 - Implement the Future State, Chapter 8 - Reflections and Conclusions, Appendix - Further Reading
